# Two business-related questions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/two-business-related-questions/188054>\
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**Created:** [May 4, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/two-business-related-questions/188054 "2006-05-04T05:14:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![samsoner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@samsoner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/samsoner)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/two-business-related-questions/188054/1 "2006-05-04T05:14:10Z")

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First issue:  
I am about to issue an invoice to a customer for their website and on the terms I mention “Net 30” which means that the payment is due WITHIN 30 days. Naturally after 30 days I will add a late fee. However, I don’t know how much of a late fee and how frequent I should issue the fee. I originally put down $25.00 added to the original amount of the payment. \*Do most people add fees again after the next 30 days or sooner, like every week? \*  
Example: Customer B originally owes me $100, but hasn’t paid it in 30 days, so now Customer B has to pay $125. Then, after 7 days I receive no payment and Customer B has to pay $150.

Also, _how can I enforce these payments so I let customers know that I truly mean business? Should I write up a statement that says “legal action may be taken if there is a serious violation in the contract due to the lack of payment”?_

Second issue:  
I am now comfortable in maintaining a variety of websites in different online mediums…HTML, CSS-only, Flash-only, PHP. Should I apply the same hourly rate to my maintenance services regardless of what task I’m doing? ($100 an hour for Flash work… $100 an hour for PHP work…)